That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination…Of what use are speech sounds and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything… — Peter Kline Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like. — James Bobin Copy Share Image
The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Nowhere does Niemeyer set out a specific aesthetic. In “The Autonomous Man” he notes that the imagination can be used for good… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to… — Levi Grossman Copy Share Image
I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
My references are very broad, and my films have been nourished by me, myself, my imagination, and my dreams. My memory has… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It sometimes start with imagination, its motivation to live for someone and is a mystery to solve for others. Regardless, love is… — Surplus Princess Copy Share Image
Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the… — William Carlos WIlliams Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects.… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand. — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Take criticism, smash it into dust, add color, and use it to take breathtaking pictures of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of… — Mathew Gray Gulber Copy Share Image
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation,… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
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